Let $f$ be a continuous function on $I$ and $A$, $B\in {\mathrm{𝒮𝒜}}_I\left(H\right)$, the convex set of selfadjoint operators with spectra in $I$. If $A\ne B$ and $f$, as an operator function, is Gateaux differentiable on $$[A,B]:=\left\{(1-t)A+tB\mid t\in \left[0,1\right]\right\},$$ while $p:\left[0,1\right]\to ℝ$ is Lebesgue integrable, then we have the inequalities $$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill \parallel {\int }_0^{1}p\left(\tau \right)& f\left(\left(1-\tau \right)A+\tau B\right)d\tau -{\int }_0^{1}p\left(\tau \right)d\tau {\int }_0^{1}f\left(\left(1-\tau \right)A+\tau B\right)d\tau \parallel \hfill \\ & \le {\int }_0^1\tau (1-\tau )|\frac{{\int }_{\tau }^{1}p\left(s\right)ds}{1-\tau }-\frac{{\int }_0^{\tau }p\left(s\right)ds}{\tau }|∥\nabla f_{\left(1-\tau \right)A+\tau B}\left(B-A\right)∥d\tau \hfill \\ & \le \frac{1}{4}{\int }_0^1|\frac{{\int }_{\tau }^{1}p\left(s\right)ds}{1-\tau }-\frac{{\int }_0^{\tau }p\left(s\right)ds}{\tau }|∥\nabla f_{\left(1-\tau \right)A+\tau B}\left(B-A\right)∥d\tau ,\hfill \end{array}$$ where $\nabla f$ is the Gateaux derivative of $f$.

The surjectivity of the operator $D_2+i{x}_2^{2k}{D}_1$ from the Gevrey space ${\mathcal{E}}^{\left\{s\right\}}\left({\mathbb{R}}^2\right)$, $s\ge 1$, onto itself and its non-surjectivity from ${\mathcal{E}}^{\left\{s\right\}}\left({\mathbb{R}}^3\right)$ to ${\mathcal{E}}^{\left\{s\right\}}\left({\mathbb{R}}^3\right)$ is proved.

For positive integers $n$, Euler’s phi function and Dedekind’s psi function are given by $$\phi \left(n\right)=n\prod _{\begin{array}{c}p\mid n\\ p\mathrm{prime}\end{array}}\left(1-\frac{1}{p}\right)\text{and}\psi \left(n\right)=n\prod _{\begin{array}{c}p\mid n\\ p\mathrm{prime}\end{array}}\left(1+\frac{1}{p}\right),$$ respectively. We prove that for all $n\ge 2$ we have $${\left(1-\frac{1}{n}\right)}^{n-1}{\left(1+\frac{1}{n}\right)}^{n+1}\le {\left(\frac{\phi \left(n\right)}{n}\right)}^{\phi \left(n\right)}{\left(\frac{\psi \left(n\right)}{n}\right)}^{\psi \left(n\right)}$$ and $${\left(\frac{\phi \left(n\right)}{n}\right)}^{\psi \left(n\right)}{\left(\frac{\psi \left(n\right)}{n}\right)}^{\phi \left(n\right)}\le {\left(1-\frac{1}{n}\right)}^{n+1}{\left(1+\frac{1}{n}\right)}^{n-1}.$$ The sign of equality holds if and only if $n$ is a prime. The first inequality refines results due to Atanassov (2011) and Kannan & Srikanth (2013).

In this work, necessary and sufficient conditions for the oscillation of solutions of 2-dimensional linear neutral delay difference systems of the form $$\Delta \left[\begin{array}{c}x\left(n\right)+p\left(n\right)x(n-m)\\ y\left(n\right)+p\left(n\right)y(n-m)\end{array}\right]=\left[\begin{array}{cc}a\left(n\right)& b\left(n\right)\\ c\left(n\right)& d\left(n\right)\end{array}\right]\left[\begin{array}{c}x(n-\alpha )\\ y(n-\beta )\end{array}\right]$$ are established, where $m>0$, $\alpha \ge 0$, $\beta \ge 0$ are integers and $a\left(n\right)$, $b\left(n\right)$, $c\left(n\right)$, $d\left(n\right)$, $p\left(n\right)$ are sequences of real numbers.

Some Ostrowski’s type inequalities for the Riemann-Stieltjes integral ${\int }_a^{b}f\left(e^{it}\right)du\left(t\right)$ of continuous complex valued integrands $f:𝒞\left(0,1\right)\to ℂ$ defined on the complex unit circle $𝒞\left(0,1\right)$ and various subclasses of integrators $u:\left[a,b\right]\subseteq \left[0,2\pi \right]\to ℂ$ of bounded variation are given. Natural applications for functions of unitary operators in Hilbert spaces are provided as well.

The scope of this note is a self-contained presentation of a mathematical method that enables us to give an absolute upper bound for the difference of the Gini coefficients $$\left|G({\sigma }_1,\cdots ,{\sigma }_n)-G({\gamma }_1,\cdots ,{\gamma }_n)\right|,$$ where $({\gamma }_1,\cdots ,{\gamma }_n)$ represents the vector of the gross wages and $({\sigma }_1,\cdots ,{\sigma }_n)$ represents the vector of the corresponding super-gross wages that is used in the Czech Republic for calculating the net wage. Since (as of June 2019) ${\sigma }_i=100·⌈1.34{\gamma }_i/100⌉$, the study of the above difference seems to be somewhat inaccessible for many economists. However, our estimate...

Let: $𝐘=\left({𝐘}_i\right)$, where ${𝐘}_i=\left(Y_{i,1},...,Y_{i,d}\right)$, $i=1,2,\cdots$, be a $d$-dimensional, identically distributed, stationary, centered process with uniform marginals and a joint cdf $F$, and $F_n\left(𝐱\right):=\frac{1}{n}{\sum }_{i=1}^n𝕀\left(Y_{i,1}\le x_1,\cdots ,Y_{i,d}\le x_d\right)$ denote the corresponding empirical cdf. In our work, we prove the almost sure central limit theorem for an empirical process $B_n=\sqrt{n}\left(F_n-F\right)$ under some weak dependence conditions due to Doukhan and Louhichi. Some application of the established result to copula processes is also presented.

Let p > 3 be a prime, and let Rₚ be the set of rational numbers whose denominator is not divisible by p. Let Pₙ(x) be the Legendre polynomials. In this paper we mainly show that for m,n,t ∈ Rₚ with m≢ 0 (mod p), $P_{[p/6]}\left(t\right)\equiv -(3/p){\sum }_{x=0}^{p-1}((x³-3x+2t)/p)\left(modp\right)$ and $\left({\sum }_{x=0}^{p-1}((x³+mx+n)/p)\right)²\equiv ((-3m)/p){\sum }_{k=0}^{[p/6]}\left(\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{2k}{k}\right)\left(\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{3k}{k}\right)\left(\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{6k}{3k}\right){((4m³+27n²)/\left(12³·4m³\right))}^k\left(modp\right)$, where (a/p) is the Legendre symbol and [x] is the greatest integer function. As an application we solve some conjectures of Z. W. Sun and the author concerning ${\sum }_{k=0}^{p-1}\left(\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{2k}{k}\right)\left(\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{3k}{k}\right)\left(\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{6k}{3k}\right)/m^k\left(modp²\right)$, where m is an integer not divisible by p.

We list some open problems concerning the polarized partition relation. We solve a couple of them, by showing that for every limit non-inaccessible ordinal α there exists a forcing notion ℙ such that the strong polarized relation $\left(\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{{\aleph }_{\alpha +1}}{{\aleph }_{\alpha }}\right)\to {\left(\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{{\aleph }_{\alpha +1}}{{\aleph }_{\alpha }}\right)}_2^{1,1}$ holds in $V^{\mathbb{P}}$.

Let $\mathrm{\Omega }$ be a bounded open convex set of class $C^2$. Let $a\left(x,H\left(u\right)\right)$ be a non linear operator satisfying the condition (A) (elliptic) with constants $\alpha$, $\gamma$, $\delta$. We prove that a number $\lambda \ge 0$ is an eigenvalue for the operator $a\left(x,H\left(u\right)\right)$ if and only if the number $\alpha \lambda$ is an eigen-value for the operator $\mathrm{\Delta }u$. If $\lambda \ge 0$ , the two systems $a\left(x,H\left(u\right)\right)=\lambda u$ and $\mathrm{\Delta }u=\alpha \lambda u$ have the same solutions. In particular, also the eventual eigen-values of the operator $a\left(x,H\left(u\right)\right)$ should all be negative. Finally, we obtain a sufficient condition for the existence of solutions $u\in H^2\cap H_0^1\left(\mathrm{\Omega }\right)$...